In director Jim McBride's romantic, neo-noir crime and romantic mystery-thriller - it told about a suspected deadly drug war in the "Big Easy" city of New Orleans, LA between Mafia mobsters and ...

In director Hal Ashby's last and very under-rated film - the R-rated edgy, unconventional and believable police-crime thriller and neo-noir boasted a screenplay co-written by Oliver Stone and adapted ...

In writer/director Spike Lee's R-rated, Rashomon-like comedy/drama, a low-budget independent film - it was his first feature-length film - a black and white feminist comedy marked by abundant female ...

In the next scene set in the middle of the night, the headlights of Officer Wood's police vehicle illuminated Tibbs - still determined to solve the case, and standing outside the police department ...

This infantile-minded comedy sequel from director Steve Oedekerk - Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995) - followed after Jim Carrey's earlier first hit Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994); the year ...

Italian director Marco Ferreri's erotic drama and compelling love story was adapted from German/American beat poet Charles Bukowski's short story The Most Beautiful Woman in Town, found in his 1972 ...

Following her role in Butterfly (1982), Pia Zadora also starred in director Peter Sasdy's trashy The Lonely Lady (1983). It was an adaptation of a Harold Robbins novel by Ellen Shepard, about "the ...

Director Edward Zwick's R-rated romantic comedy-drama (his directorial debut film) was based on David Mamet's 1974 play "Sexual Perversity in Chicago." It starred two celebrated members of Hollywood's ...

In the Heat of the Night (1967) is a tense whodunit detective story thriller that was set in the little backwater town of Sparta, Mississippi during a hot spell in September. The ground-breaking, ...

The mid-to-late 70s and early 80s inaugurated a period of low-brow, teasy, R-rated sexy, US-made teen comedies (horror films not usually included) with gratuitous nudity, mindlessly weak plots, and ...

Before that movie staple, Adventure Films for Boys of All Ages, degenerated into cinematic roller-coaster rides, the genre boasted articulated plots, real wit, stylish villainy and great players. This ...

The Shawshank Redemption (1994) is an impressive, engrossing piece of film-making from director/screenwriter Frank Darabont who adapted horror master Stephen King's 1982 novella Rita Hayworth and ...